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March 28, 2025
Support for a Kubernetes API connector is generally available (GA). The connector allows you to interact with Kubernetes objects in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. For more information, see Access Kubernetes API objects using a connector.
February 19, 2025
Workflows is available in the following additional region: europe-north2 (Stockholm, Sweden).
January 28, 2025
Workflows doesn't support HTTP requests to the IP-based endpoints of Google Kubernetes Engine cluster control planes. To ensure that your workflow functions as expected, you must access the DNS-based endpoints. For more information about the scope and impact, see the service announcement.
September 13, 2024
The maximum number of concurrent workflow executions has increased from 7,500 to 10,000.
June 17, 2024
Support for a Vertex AI API connector is available in Preview. Learn how to access Vertex AI models from a workflow.
May 30, 2024
The maximum number of concurrent workflow executions has increased from 5,000 to 7,500.
March 04, 2024
An issue that allowed jumps in or out of parallel branches, parallel loops, and for loops is resolved. Only these jumps are allowed:
- To steps within the same parallel branch or loop
- Between steps belonging to the same for loop
February 19, 2024
The maximum number of concurrent workflow executions has increased from 3,000 to 5,000.
January 11, 2024
Support for invoking a VPC Service Controls-compliant private endpoint is generally available (GA).
December 15, 2023
Support to view the history of a workflow execution as a list of step entries is generally available (GA). See the blog post: Announcing Workflows execution steps history.
November 17, 2023
Support for a Kubernetes API connector is available in Preview. The connector allows you to interact with Kubernetes objects in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. For more information, see Access Kubernetes API objects using a connector.
See the blog post: Deploy and manage Kubernetes applications with Workflows.
October 26, 2023
A connection reset error is tagged as a ConnectionError and not a ConnectionFailedError, and it is not retried for non-idempotent requests. For more information, see Workflow errors and Retry steps.
July 06, 2023
Support for defining environment variables at deployment time is available in Preview. See the blog post: Custom Environment Variables in Workflows.
June 30, 2023
Three functions are available: map.merge takes two maps, creates a copy of the first map, and adds items from the second map to the copy; map.merge_nested recursively adds items from a map to a copy of another map; uuid.generate returns a random universally unique identifier.
May 17, 2023
Support for a Batch API connector is available in Preview.
May 01, 2023
The Cloud Workflows service agent has the ability to consume quota and billing for a project through the serviceusage.services.use permission. This allows workflows to count quota and apply billing to the correct project when making calls to other Google APIs.
April 14, 2023
Workflows support for Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) is available in Preview.
Use the Workflows JSON schema in your IDE to provide syntax support when creating a workflow. See the Google Cloud Blog post: Workflows gets an updated JSON Schema.
March 21, 2023
Support for triggering a workflow using Eventarc within a VPC Service Controls perimeter is generally available (GA).
March 02, 2023
Workflows is available in the following additional regions:
asia-northeast3(Seoul, South Korea)asia-southeast2(Jakarta, Indonesia)me-west1(Tel Aviv, Israel)southamerica-west1(Santiago, Chile)
February 21, 2023
An issue where one shared variable in a subworkflow overwrote another in a calling subworkflow during a workflow's execution is resolved. This affected calling a subworkflow with a parallel step from within a parallel step.
January 04, 2023
Support for an Application Integration connector is available in Preview.
December 15, 2022
A workflow's source and details can now be updated independently through the Cloud Console using the Source and Details tabs for quicker editing.
December 09, 2022
A list.prepend function is available to support creating a copy of a list with a new element added to the beginning.
November 08, 2022
Workflows is available in the following additional regions:
asia-east2(Hong Kong, China)europe-central2(Warsaw, Poland)europe-southwest1(Madrid, Spain)europe-west9(Paris, France)northamerica-northeast2(Toronto, Canada)us-east5(Columbus, United States)us-south1(Dallas, United States)us-west2(Los Angeles, United States)us-west3(Salt Lake City, United States)
September 23, 2022
Workflows is FedRAMP Moderate-compliant.
September 06, 2022
Support for connectors for Google Forms and Google Sheets is available in Preview.
August 29, 2022
Added support to deploy a workflow using a cross-project service account through the Google Cloud console.
August 05, 2022
Added skip_polling so that connectors can execute asynchronously without waiting for the operation to complete.
August 02, 2022
Workflows is available in the following additional regions:
asia-northeast2(Osaka, Japan)asia-south2(Delhi, India)australia-southeast2(Melbourne, Australia)europe-north1(Hamina, Finland)europe-west2(London, England)europe-west3(Frankfurt, Germany)southamerica-east1(Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil)us-east4(Ashburn, Virginia, United States)us-west4(Las Vegas, Nevada, United States)
June 21, 2022
Workflows can invoke private on‑premises, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or other Google Cloud endpoints that are Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)-enabled.
June 20, 2022
Support for VPC Service Controls is generally available (GA).
June 13, 2022
Parallel steps are available in Preview.
June 01, 2022
Workflows is available in the europe-west8 (Milan, Italy) region.
May 12, 2022
The following functions have been added:
defaultandifsupport conditions within expressionsmap.getperforms a safe lookup on a map, returningnullif a key is not found
A Status field that tracks the current steps and progress of an execution is available in Preview. See the Workflows Executions REST API Overview.
March 31, 2022
Support for creating an Eventarc trigger on the Workflows page in the Cloud Console is now available in Preview.
March 07, 2022
Support for the following connectors is available in Preview:
March 03, 2022
Support for VPC Service Controls is in Beta stage.
February 18, 2022
Checking for the existence of a key in a list is supported.
January 18, 2022
Workflows is now certified as SOC 1-compliant.
January 05, 2022
Workflows can invoke Cloud Functions or Cloud Run services that have ingress restricted to internal traffic.
December 10, 2021
Dynamic keys are supported.
December 07, 2021
Resource limits for variable memory and argument size have been increased to 256 KB.
December 06, 2021
A Workflows Service Level Agreement (SLA) is available and applicable.
November 19, 2021
Workflows can be scheduled through the Workflows page in the Cloud Console.
November 17, 2021
The following functions have been added:
sys.sleep_until— Suspends execution until the given timetime.format— Formats timestamp as a human-readable stringtime.parse— Parses ISO 8601-compatible string into a timestamp
October 28, 2021
A built-in environment variable, GOOGLE_CLOUD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME, is supported to access the service account name for a workflow execution.
September 14, 2021
Call logging is available in Preview.
September 07, 2021
Support for callback endpoints is available in Preview.
September 02, 2021
July 28, 2021
A list.concat function has been added to support adding an element to a list.
June 07, 2021
String processing functions are available in the text module of the Workflows standard library.
May 31, 2021
Visualization support while editing the Workflows iteration syntax is available through the Google Cloud Console.
May 10, 2021
Workflows is HIPAA compliant.
January 25, 2021
Connectors are available in Preview.
December 10, 2020
Workflows launched a visualization feature. The Google Cloud Console displays a visualization of the workflow during editing.
December 08, 2020
Workflows is available in the following regions:
asia-southeast1(Singapore)europe-west4(Netherlands)